The Plumber

Clip 1: ‘A fertility symbol’

2 min 34 sec

Taken from the TV program The Plumber (1979)

Original title classification not rated – this clip chosen to be PG

A video which normally appears on this page did not load because the Flash plug-in was not found on your computer. You can download and install the free Flash plug-in then view the video. Or you can view the same video as a downloadable MP4 file without installing the Flash plug-in.

Availability of the complete title

Curator’s clip description

Max the plumber (Ivor Kants) asks Jill the academic (Judy Morris) about her time in the highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG). He calls the PNG artefacts ‘boong stuff’, but identifies himself as a member of a disadvantaged minority that’s also subject to discrimination – tradesmen.

australian screen